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Job 30:27
“My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
מֵעֶהmêʻeh · may-aw'
H4578 · Hebrew
H4578 · Hebrew
- Definition
- used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extension the stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively)
- Derivation
- from an unused root probably meaning to be soft;
- KJV renderings
- belly, bowels, [idiom] heart, womb.
- Grammar
- מֵעַ֖ — common noun, masculine, plural, construct
- י — suffix (pronominal), 1st person, common, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 32 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 15:4Genesis 25:23Numbers 5:22Ruth 1:112 Samuel 7:12
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מֵעֶה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.